RevWorks’ highly anticipated first major automotive show – RetroSpective – was one I couldn’t miss. Even when it meant a 700km (434mi) drive from Tief im Wald’s 10-year anniversary event in Germany back to the Netherlands.
I left Oberhof at 8:00am, arriving in Brielle at around 3:00pm. That left just an hour and a half to try to capture every little thing. Given the sheer scale of RetroSpective, it quickly became clear this may be unimaginable. But I gave it a great shot!
The RevWorks name is perhaps familiar to you – perhaps from my coverage of this 12 months’s Secret Garage Meet 2.0 or their curated hall on the 2024 International Amsterdam Motor Show. If not, let me offer you a temporary rundown…
RevWorks is a Dutch-based modified automotive community brand founded in 2012. Originally inspired by this very website, they’ve grown into a widely known name within the European scene, organizing sub-shows inside IAMS and 100% Tuning – and their very own standalone events, just like the Secret Garage Meet mentioned above and their annual RevRun – a three-day, Gumball-inspired event with 70 modified sports, performance and supercars touring the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg.
So the 2024 RetroSpective wasn’t RevWorks’ first rodeo, nevertheless it was their first major automotive show.
The concept for the event got here about in 2019 while the team planned the 2020 RevRun, envisioning a ‘RetroRun’ for cars 25 years and older, on a distinct route and at a slower pace.
Everyone knows what happened in 2020, and each events were placed on hold. But when the world resumed normalcy, so did RevWorks’ event schedule.
Nonetheless, it could be a couple of years before the retro event became a reality.
The wheels began turning last 12 months when, while visiting a non-public collection owned by two brothers, the RevWorks team were shown a formidable museum/bar featuring old Porsches, Mercedes-Benzes, and American muscle cars. The brothers spoke about their idea to host an event on their grounds, and off the back of that RevWorks’ RetroRun rally concept evolved right into a static show based around cars aged 25 years and older called RetroSpective.
In creating the event, RevWorks invited cars from all eras: Sixties hotrods, Seventies lowriders, Nineteen Eighties homologation specials, and Nineties tuners.
They balanced modified cars and show cars with rare performance vehicles from obscure tuners, like this Strosek 930 straight out of the ’80s.
The Liberty Walk Countach, previously only seen in Europe at Ultrace 2024 also featured, as did one other controversial supercar-based creation.
The F40 Barchetta Buerleys is a one-of-one Ferrari F40 LM so modified that Ferrari removed it from their register, banning the owner from calling it a Ferrari.
While not all show cars are race cars, the Audi S1 quattro Pikes Peak was a surprising showpiece.
Indoor areas at automotive shows are normally reserved for special machines, but not here. RetroSpective’s indoor aspect was as a substitute stuffed with an RC drift track, sneaker vendors, a pop-up tattoo studio, and arcade machines.
The arcade video games inspired some incredibly cool t-shirts and the show’s Top 10 trophies.
I used to be truly blown away by the varied range of cars at RetroSpective. Having non-show cars on display alongside show cars gave the event a novel vibe – something never seen before within the Netherlands. RevWorks are onto a very good thing, and I can’t wait to see how RetroSpective evolves within the years to come back.
Collin Tiemens
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This Article First Appeared At www.speedhunters.com
